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Like many Lego-playing pre-teens, my son has recently been drawn to the “building with blocks” computer game called Minecraft. Despite being a relatively new game (version 1.0 was released on November 18, 2011), Minecraft already has a huge following. How huge? According to the Minecraft stats page, as of January 28, 2012, Minecraft has “20,915,072 registered users, of which 4,784,102 (22.87%) have bought the game. In the last 24 hours, 89,886 people registered, and 14,127 people bought the game.”
What accounts for this massive popularity in such short a time? I haven’t played the game myself (yet) but I’ve been looking over my son’s shoulder and what I see is one cool game. Admittedly, the graphics aren’t amazing compared to what you typically see on the XBox 360 and PS3. However, if you like Lego, you’ll love Minecraft. According to the Minecraft website, “Minecraft is a game about placing blocks to build anything you can imagine.” Yup, that sounds a lot like Lego! The best part is, Minecraft is a whole lot cheaper than buying a large Star Wars Lego set!
If you haven’t seen Minecraft yet, I find the graphics …Continue reading » How to Fix “You must type a file name” Error When Renaming Dot Folders and Files in Windows Explorer
Recently I installed a SSL certificate on a Windows Server 2008 computer for the purpose of securing Terminal Services and Terminal Services Gateway (TSG). The certificate was created on a computer running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) using OpenSSL. The certificate was signed by my own certificate authority.
I had no problem installing the SSL certificate on Windows Server 2008 and it worked well. However, when I rebooted the server, all hell broke loose. …Continue reading » Windows Server 2008 Hangs During Startup After Installing SSL Certificate
Sometimes it’s handy to find out who is logged on at a remote Windows computer. For example, before rebooting a critical server after hours, you might want to make sure your boss isn’t logged in at his computer.
In Linux, this is easy. You simply login to the remote computer with ssh (or telnet…yikes) and run the who command. For example:
me@bosscomputer:~$ who
boss tty7 2008-10-16 07:57 (:0)
me pts/0 2008-11-14 15:25 (mycomputer)
In Windows, I found two ways of doing this. Both ways work with Windows XP and Windows 2003 (and perhaps other versions too). …Continue reading » How to Find Out Who is Logged On at a Windows Computer
Sometimes it’s useful to find out the uptime for a Windows computer. For example, if you are rebooting a whole bunch of Windows computers and you aren’t careful about keeping track of which ones you have just rebooted, you can check the uptime.
In Linux, it’s easy to find out how long a computer has been up and running. You just runtime the good ol’ uptime command. For example:
me@mycomputer:~$ uptime
09:17:32 up 23 days, 19:13, 3 users, load average: 0.36, 0.54, 0.49
In Windows, it’s almost as easy but not quite as intuitive. …Continue reading » How to Find Uptime in Windows
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